If there’s an NBA player who doesn’t want more minutes, then perhaps that player has a problem with being too content. Andre Miller, like many others, indeed would like to play more, and said as much recently.

But his agent explained Friday that Miller is committed to the Nuggets — the team Miller signed with this past summer during free agency — and Nuggets executive Masai Ujiri said, “Andre is not going anywhere. We want to win.”

Miller helps Denver win. He is a key cog off the bench. The point guard spearheads the second unit, he often plays down the stretch and was even called the team’s MVP by coach George Karl (prior to Danilo Gallinari’s recent surge).

Miller did make some comments to Paul Klee about his role, saying, “I definitely would like to contribute more.”

But agent Andy Miller spoke to his client, and the agent said Friday, “From my perspective, nothing has changed in his goals and why he signed with the team. He wants to continue to contribute, and hopefully making the playoffs and a surge deep into the playoffs will also show his commitment.”

Ujiri, just like Karl, speaks glowingly about the point guard’s importance to the growth of the team, which is currently on an eight-game winning streak, Denver’s longest since January of 2010.

Miller plays 25.2 minutes per game for the Nuggets, sitting fourth in the West, and averages 8.7 points and 5.8 assists.

The Nuggets’ plan is to grow this young team — complemented by a couple vets such as Miller — into a contender in the coming years. Realistically, and Karl has said as much, the plan this year is to at least nab that fourth seed and get to the second round for just the second time since Denver drafted Carmelo Anthony in 2003.

After reading Kisla’s article today about Andre I, it;s too bad there isn’t a mandatory IQ test at the Post. He’d be gone in a nanosecond! Ask any GM who Denver’s MVP of 2013 is and they’ll all answer the same. The same guy who is now regarded as the best defender in the game. Kisla has become another Klueless Klis!

George, have you seen the games this year. I do agree that kisla is the most negative columnist and hardly makes any sense. On iggy, the season is not over, he can become the best player. He needs to improve his perimeter shooting, free throws, and of lately lessening his turnovers. The actual MVP of the team is gallo. His overall game and especially his clutch shooting has propelled him to that position.

Andre needs to go. I have been extremely upset with Andre ever since last year when I realized that he has a terrible attitude and probably doesn’t give a crap about winning or being a team player. Last year Miller was asked if he thinks his Nuggets team can make a deep run in the playoffs. His response was a simple “No”. He said that he doesn’t believe his team or any team can go deep in the playoffs without a bonafide superstar. This should have been the day he went on the trading block. It makes no sense to keep a guy on your team that is trying to win without a superstar when it is clear that he will never buy into that program. So again. Andre needs to go. Ty is figuring out the lob pass which is pretty much all Andre brings to the floor since we have actual sizable players who can play a post up game if George would ever practice some offensive sets. Plus getting rid of Andre allows George to bring back Julyan Stone from the D-League. Stone is a bigger player with much greater athleticism and defensive ability. Ujiri should not be so quick to write off trading Miller.

Yeah. Why would the Nuggets want to trade a to help for the future? Same old dysfunctional front office it’s always been.

The Nuggets already know they have no shot at winning a championship. Andre Miller himself doesn’t believe that Denver has any chance. He said as much. Miller believes that unless you are a team with a superstar on the roster, you can’t win a title. He’s absolutely right.

So why not trade Miller for something before he retires and at least not let him go for nothing in another year or whatever. Doesn’t Miller want a shot at a title? You’d think so.

The only reason the Nuggets want to win is because it’s a business. They didn’t say they want to win a title. They just said generally they want to win. There’s a big difference.

If Miller didn’t want to be here he shouldn’t have signed a new contract a few months ago. He knew full well that he would be backing up Lawson, and the Nuggets had pretty much the same roster at that point. Miller is getting ready to turn 37 and is in serious decline. He is playing 25 minutes per game on one of the better teams in the league, and pulls this crap when the Nuggets have won 14 of their last 16?

WOW I’m shocked. Cant believe Andre said the Nuggets arent gonna make a deep run in the playoffs or win the championship. He also doesnt wanna come off the bench. Why in the world did he sign with Denver???

If he keeps taking three’s when he’s tired– even in double and triple overtime– I say trade him or commit him involuntarily to a mental hospital. Is he even aware that he is as capable of hitting a three as my dead grandma?

My God. He blew the Boston thriller and Hastings and Marlowe bit their tongues about his, ahem, Heavens to Murgatroyd– LACK OF LONG RANGE SHOOTING ACUMEN. Yes, the refs killed us inexplicably.

But of all Nuggets on the roster– even Timofey Mozgov– Miller has the worst chance of hitting three’s (especially when tired). Why not use that spin move more than once a game, Andre. I don’t want to hear him ever again whining about our lack of a closer. And George Karl needs to stop kissing is butt. By the way George, you should have fouled the Celtics when leading by three in the second OT.

I’m used to Denver teams doing utterly stupid things at the end of games, in particular the Nuggets. The Nuggets have, through various coaches and rosters over two decades, seemed inherently unable to make a smart play with the game on the line. Actually, bent on making the worst possible play is really the scenario. Miller launching a 3 with plenty of time to reset the offense – while he is shooting an awful 21% from that distance – ranks with some of the most awful end of game decisions I have witnessed recently. That is saying a lot because over the past two seasons, they have made some ridiculous decisions at the end of games.

Next to the Lakers series in the Western conference finals a few years back (two consecutive games of not even being able to get the ball in for a last second shot), this is the most infuriated I have been at a Nuggets game. Just incredibly stupid.

Chris Dempsey arrived at The Denver Post in Dec. 2003 after seven years at the Boulder Daily Camera, where he primarily covered the University of Colorado football and men's basketball teams. A University of Colorado-Boulder alumnus, Dempsey covers the Nuggets and also chips in on college sports.